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If you look closely at your picture above, there is a aluminum plate that they machined to screw onto the lower manifold, then drilled holes and tapped them for the upper manifold to bolt onto the aluminum plate. The plate is going to be at least a 3/8" thick plate of aluminum.
Use the two manifolds as your templates to machine your aluminum plate and use a flat headed fastener to mount the plate to the lower manifold because there are going to be mounting points where the upper manifold has to cover or span across.